this is why I say this franchise doesn’t deserve another franchise player. Look at how harden was treated on this forum for years in comparison to other great players with fan base forums around the league. Harden has been fat shamed here, made fun of his defense and the whole nine. It would be similar to jokic being fat shamed by his own Denver fanbase for eating nothing but junk food in the offseason and being a poor defender. Jokic is loved by pretty much all of the nuggets fanbase despite the warts in his game. Harden could only dream of getting the love that jokic does.. the Yao Ming effect their was a thread on jokic here and how majority of rockets fans wish we had him as our franchise player. Which is fine by me, but if you want a euro to be your franchise player. Just come out and say it, instead of taking shots at James harden and other BLACK rockets players for doing nothing but trying to win. I saw how this forum drooled over Kelly olynk this year in comparison to Christian wood and tbh I wasn’t shocked.
So why does it seem like European and non black rockets are never bashed here. Yao has only been out of the first round once in his entire career. Does he have heart, harden would not get passes Yao got for consistently losing in the first round. Both Yao and mcgrady lost as teammates here, but it was mcgrady and NOT Yao that used to be ridiculed here. Harden has been out of the first round way more than Yao but Yao is more revered. Lol make it make sense, how do you determine if someone has heart, is it if they are fake tough guys and yell a lot lol.
Sounds like you don't understand the difference between "heart" and "success". Yao literally played with a broken foot. That's heart.
Well I agree that there is a small minority of brain dead’s who you will have zero chance of having a realistic discussion or debate on Harden or will have zero appreciation for how good he was, I don’t subscribe to the reasoning behind it being that he is a black player. Some people are just dumb and stubborn.
Yao struggled to stay healthy because he played so hard year round, there's no questioning his heart. Tmac and Harden on the other hand, you can and should absolutely question it because both were known to quit on their teams despite their next level talent.
how many injuries has harden played through during his rockets career. Ankle injuries, neck strains, getting his eyes poked out by draymond green in the playoffs. Like I said how can you determine heart. Harden has rarely missed games in his career unlike Yao
There's a big difference between playing through sprains (which every athlete does) and playing through a broken foot.
you're right but Tmac was surrounded by **** talent. We used to draft and trade based on attitudes and personalities that's why we had so many old ass vets. Harden got spoiled and became an entitled diva because the narcissistic GM couldnt stop talking about him.
harden had some of the worst ankle sprains I have ever seen and would still play the next game like it never happened even when he was advised to sit out to not risk hurting his efficiency stats( no way harden missing the length of time it took c-wood to recover from this year) Harden is a change of direction player so his hamstring injury prohibits him from being explosive.
because harden(and cp3) are the best all around guards since Kobe and Jordan according basketball reference. Some of things harden did on the court weren’t seen before. He deserved the praise from his gm( who he traded for)
Again, you simply can't compare ankle sprains to broken bones, and it's idiotic to try. If you think that's racist, so be it. Also, there was no rush to bring Wood back since we were tanking.
No, it's not that. Everyone else is held to this same standard. The only one that is different than Jordan as people assume he would have won championships. Injuries are just never an excuse, people will just say "Every team deals with injuries" and it's true.
harden has never had a broken bone in his body. So how do we know harden wouldn’t play through a broken bone his shooting hand or something. That’s just it, you CANT. So how do you know Yao has heart but harden doesnt
So if we were tanking why did c-wood eventually come back and start playing again despite our record. Just give it up, their are too many holes in your argument. The whole time wood was injured we were getting updates of when he would return lol. Don’t try and change what is on these forums. I will bump the threads if I have too.
Huh steph curry literally gets the injury excuse after everyone of his bad playoff games. Yes everyone of them.
